Fence



J. D. CURK.

(No Model.)

FENCE,

No. 593,197. Patented Nov. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

JOHN D. GURK, OF BROOKVILLE, OHIO.

FENCE.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,197, dated November 9, 1897. Application filed May 27, 1897. Serial No. 638,369. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN D. GURK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Fence, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wire fences, and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive construction and arrangement of means for securing pickets or stays to the runners, whereby without crimping or otherwise manipulating the runners the stays may be secured thereto and firmly held from displacement either parallel with or perpendicular to the runners.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view of a portion of a fence constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail rear View of a portion of a stay and the contiguous portion of a runner, showing the means for securing the former to the latter. Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective of the tie, showing the contiguous portions of the runner and stay in dotted lines. Fig. a is a view of the tie previous to its application to the stay. Fig. 5 is a detail view in perspective of a portion of a stay to show the runner-seat therein.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

. The stays 1, which I prefer to use in connection with the fence embodying my invention, are of half-round cross-sectional construction, and they are provided in their flat or plane faces with transverse grooves 2 for the reception of runners 3. The grooves in the stays are preferably made of a depth corresponding approximately with one-half the diameter of the wire forming the runners, whereby the runners maybe snugly embedded in the stays to prevent movement of the stays in a direction perpendicular to the runners.

The tie-wirc 4: is applied to the intersection of a stay and runner in a looped or hair-pin shape, as illustrated in Fig. 4:, the legs of the clip being extended from the flat toward the rounded side of the stay through perforations 5, which are formed in the stay respectively above and below the plane of the groove or seat and contiguous to the opposite side edges of the stay, whereby the looped portion of the tie-wire spans the groove or seat and thereby intersects and secures the runner in place in the seat. The legs of the tie-wire, after extending through the said perforations in the stay, are bent toward each other in contact with the transversely-rounded surface of the stay, and are carried forward to and coiled around the runner contiguous to each side edge of the stay, the transversely-extending portions of the legs of the tie being arranged in horizontal parallel planes respectively above and below the plane of the runner, as indicated in Fig. 2. The extremities of the legs of the tie are coiled in opposite directions around the runner, one coming in contact with the :runner at its upper side while the other approaches the same at a tangent to its lower side.

The object in extending the legs of the tie. in parallel planes and toward each other, whereby each leg passes from a point contiguous to one side edge of the stay around to the opposite side edge, is to practically encircle the stay by means of the tie-wire. The body portion of the stay is thus encircled to prevent longitudinal splitting of the stay between the planes of the transverse perforations 5, and the edges of the stay are prevented from being detached by contact with the outer sides thereof of the contiguous portions of the legs of the tie adjacent to the coiled extremities of the same.

The advantage derived from extending the legs of the tie through perforations of the stay instead of arranging them in contact with the side edges of the same is that the perforations may be formed at a uniform distance apart corresponding with the interval between the legs of the tiewire, irrespective of the slight variations of width of the stays, and, furthermore, by thus engaging the legs of the tiewire with perforations in the stay the transverse or looped portion of the tie may be arranged to cross or intersect the runner at a less acute angle than if the legs of the tie were arranged in contact with the side edges of the Hence I am enabled to firmly tie the stay.

a runner withstay at each intersection with out unnecessarily limiting the width of the stay. vThe simplicity of this tie enables it,to be applied'wi-thout the use of special tools and without the loss of time incident to the manipulation of tools specially designed for the purpose, and in addition to this-it should be observed that in applying stay to the runners of a fence it maybe arranged with its grooves in the planes of the runners, and

the legs of the several tie-wires may be inserted in the perforations of the stay contiguous to and engaging each runner to hold the stay in position while the extremities of the ties are bent forward and coiled around the runners. In other words, the tie wires by reason of the perforations in the stay are held in place to maintain the stay in its position on the runners prior to the coiling of the extremities of the ties around the runners.

It will be understood that the stays maybe made of any suitable material, suchas wood, steel, or iron.

Having described my invention, 7 What I claim is u I In a fence, the combination of runners, iniersecting cross-sectionally half-round stays, arranged with their flat sidesin contact with the runners, and provided with transverse grooves forming runner-seats of less depth than the diameters of the runners, each stay being provided, respectively above and below the plane of each runner-seat and contiguous to its lateral edges, with perforations perpendicular to the plane of said flat side, and a separate tie for securing the stays at each intersection with the runners, said tie consisting of a single looped strand of wire, having its legs engaged respectively with said perfprations in the stay, and its looped portion OHN CURK.

Witnesses:

IRA O. WELLBAUM, ELLIS BooKwALTER. 

